I was presenting at the colloquium for my Internship in CSS class, so I decided to get there early to listen in on some of the panels attending the conference. The first panel that I listen to was Protecting the enterprise roundtable. This panel included Eric Eid, Matt Knox, Terry Gifford, and Chris Kradjan. They talked about how different sectors of the market get targeted for cyber security attacks everyday, going up to 4000 attacks per day. One of the panel members talked about thousands of attacks everyday to try and steal the patient records. These records are then sold to other clients that use this stolen information for insurance fraud.
One of the other panel members, who I believe was from Puget Sound Energy talked about how there multiple attacks everyday at their online service as well. After leaving the panel open to question one of the attendees asked a very interesting question: Why do you put the things on the cloud that aren't meant to be on the cloud? I think he is referring to all the patient data and all the customer information as well as other company information that is stored on the cloud, which makes it an attractive site for the hackers to attack. One of the panel members responded to the question by saying that everything is stored on the cloud and online services are used for service that shouldn't necessarily have online service because people are so used to technology and having access to everything and everywhere. They want to access all the information on the phone compared to traditional paper bills which means the service should be accessible from outside the company network. Another reason patient information is available on the cloud is because rural areas sometime do not have access to a specialist, which means the doctor can still access patient information to diagnose any disease even from a different state.
One of the other panel members, who I believe was from Puget Sound Energy talked about how there multiple attacks everyday at their online service as well. After leaving the panel open to question one of the attendees asked a very interesting question: Why do you put the things on the cloud that aren't meant to be on the cloud? I think he is referring to all the patient data and all the customer information as well as other company information that is stored on the cloud, which makes it an attractive site for the hackers to attack. One of the panel members responded to the question by saying that everything is stored on the cloud and online services are used for service that shouldn't necessarily have online service because people are so used to technology and having access to everything and everywhere. They want to access all the information on the phone compared to traditional paper bills which means the service should be accessible from outside the company network. Another reason patient information is available on the cloud is because rural areas sometime do not have access to a specialist, which means the doctor can still access patient information to diagnose any disease even from a different state.
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